Dickens Square Park

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Last year TNRA and other local groups objected to the Council’s proposals in the emerging Southwark plan for housing on part of Dickens Square park and gave evidence at the public inquiry on the plan (see TNRA Newsletters Summer 2005 and Spring 2006). The inspector’s report has now been published and he has recommended that:

1. The proposals for Dickens Square are deleted from the plan and
2. All of Dickens Square is designated Borough Open Land (which will protect it from development in the future).

The council is now consulting (to 13 October) on its modifications to the plan, made in response to the inspector’s report. It has accepted his recommendations on Dickens Square. We are pleased with this outcome and note what the inspector says in his report:

I should like to pay tribute to the enthusiasm of those local people who appeared at the Inquiry and of all the others who relied on their written representations … I hope that the objectors, their neighbours and local children will continue to enjoy the amenities that this land affords.

The inspector’s report, the modified Southwark plan and a report containing the council’s decisions on the nspector’s report are available on the council’s website at:

http://www.southwark.gov.uk/YourServices/planningandbuildingcontrol/planningpolicy/emergingsouthwarkplan.html